The “Orchid House”, pictured above, recently sold for a hefty $15-million. Fortunately, the buyer received a “house that produces more energy than it uses.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Apparently that is just what an anonymous buyer did recently, making the “Orchid House” the UKs most expensive country home�and it won’t be completed for 3 years
Inside Line puts the 2009 Nissan GT-R to the ultimate test by going on a 2,000-mile road trip, with stops at the drag strip and more. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
And now here’s the best part. We’re buying one. That’s right. Edmunds’ Inside Line is buying a new GT-R. We’ve ordered a white one. A white GT-R Premium with a black interior, the optional floor mats and an iPod jack. We’re even paying for it with our own money, no freebies on this one, and should take delivery in July
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You don’t have to be a world class bodybuilder to lift two-times your body weight. All you need are these wearable exoskeletons. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Alienware’s m17x is claimed to be the world’s fastest 17-inch gaming notebook as of yet. Featuring a 1920 x 1200 display, an Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processor, up to 4GB DDR2 memory, 2 x 250GB HDDs in RAID 0, and dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics cards in SLI. Prices start from $2,949. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Other worthy tidbits from the show: They’re not planning on a MacBook Air competitor. They’re big-boned and proud of it. Also, they’re looking at making some cheaper notebooks for more mainstream gamers that can’t afford to drop $3k on a sweet gaming notebook
[via Gizmodo]
This nifty automated white board basically takes “text input from the internet and plot[s] it onto a white board for the world to see.” Video after the break. Click here for one more picture.
If the pen needs to be ‘down’, the electromagnet will actuate and gravity will push the tip of the pen down to the surface of the whiteboard again. The electronics aren�t that complex: the main task is to make the stepper motors and the solenoid controllable by a PC
[via HackedGadgets]
The De Lorean DMC-12, released in 1981, “featured gull-wing doors with a fiberglass ‘underbody’, to which non-structural brushed stainless steel panels were affixed.” Modern Marvels takes a look back at this vehicle after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The first prototype appeared in March 1976, and production officially began in 1981 (with the first DMC-12 rolling off the production line on January 21) at the DMC factory in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. During its production, several aspects of the car were changed, such as the hood (bonnet) style, wheels and interior
The “Ticketime” system consists of a boarding pass printed on electronic paper, with a small wearable strip that detaches and “counts down to when your flight is supposed to leave.” No word yet on availability. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The fringe of the ticket is made of electronic paper that could be torn off and worn as a wristwatch during the period of your travel. Before your departure, the airline company would preset the watch to the time zone of your destination
[via YankoDesign – Dvice]
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have developed modular, shape-shifting robots that can reassemble themselves after being kicked apart. Video after the break.
That’s done with the aid of a camera that seeks out the unique blinkin’ lights of another robot, which it is able to dock with using some magnets and then start the search for another bot all over again, eventually forming into a slightly unstable walking robot
[via Engadget – NewScientist]
GV pits the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Grand Theft Auto IV against each other in a graphics showdown. Are there any noticeable differences? Find out after the break.
The 360 seemed to have a bit more pop-in, but also seemed a tad cleaner looking, but I only noticed the latter by going back and forth between the TVs, which were set up side-by-side
[via Kotaku]
Festo’s AquaJelly and AirJelly robots are essentially “based on their biological model, the jellyfish”, with the latter design offering “‘fascinating possibilities’ for ‘lighter-than-air’ aviation.” Videos after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
..the AquaJelly is “an artificial autonomous jellyfish with an electric drive and an intelligent, adaptive mechanical system.” Apparently the idea is to have several of the robots autonomously working together using a communication system composed of Zigbee short-range radio on the surface and LEDs when underwater
[via Gizmodo]